Strategic Management of Knowledge Chains in AEC Industry
In AECI, Knowledge base is categorized into domain, organizational and project knowledge. Evolution of data to knowledge is through: data-items-identification connecting knowledge patterns, knowledge information relationships along SC; improved context/understanding creating intellectual asset incorporating innovative ideas, principles, processes and mechanisms. Design KM could be strategic-oriented: English Saxon movement or cultural-oriented: Italian movement, both emphasize: creating spaces-places, visual identity, enthusiasm for design. Each is associated with any of the 5 design-processes: linear, divisions, centralized, cycle, and investigative creating knowledge-pool requiring sharing among the stakeholders. The inadequacy in managing tacit-project-knowledge result in fundamental inter-related problems like: Loss of project-knowledge; Unawareness of “which knowledge is available with whom, how to, how much depth leading to reinventing the facts over and over again; Partial knowledge loss due to inadequate knowledge codification. Technology is partially utilized to manage tacit-knowledge as facilitator to initiate sustainable interactions, collaborations and integrations between project-stakeholders. Strategic Knowledge management in AECI helps measurement of project-performance obscuring subjective professional-environment of AECI due to continually/rapidly changing needs with time, in technological, social, economic, professional contexts, collaborative, interactive and integrating conditions and requirements. These characteristics cause low-efficiency/productivity along PDLC. Surveys/experience identifies inclusive/integrated AECI-SC Management with KM to solve major problems of AECIstakeholders. This research argues, AECI needs development of appropriate strategic management systems for effective/efficient Knowledge-Pool creation. Research objective is to study KM in AECI practices, understand how KM happens in project-based multiprofession-environment/associated-challenges; current strategic management practices; role of interactions/collaboration/integrating relationships in KM/policies through effective Integration/collaboration, innovation/Design-Development Management; in AECI-SC, review current Management issues and highlight potential KM research.
architecture engineering and construction (AECI) supply chain (SC) knowledge chain (KC) knowledge management (KM) project development life cycle (PDLC).
Chandran R. JETTY VENKATASUBRAMANI Balakrishnaa VASUDEVAN Saravanan RANGASWAMY
School of Architecture, M S Ramaiah Instituteof Technology, Bangalore-54, Karnataka, India HOD Dept. of Civil Engg., VLBJCET, Coimbatore, TamilNadu, India Principal Prahar School of Architecture, Coimbatore,Tamil Nadu, India HOD School of Management, VLBJCET, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India
国际会议
2011 International Conference on Construction & Real Estate Management(2011建设与房地产管理国际会议)
广州
英文
235-239
2011-11-19（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）